THE POLICE PROBLEM

This is slightly outside the norm for this sub (cop gets justice), but I think it still fits because he got away with two other killings before this.

In 2016, a 12-year-old named Taylor Cadle reported to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, in central Florida, that she had been raped by her adoptive father. The detective investigating the case didn’t believe her, and Taylor was charged with filing a false police report, a first-degree misdemeanor. As part of the terms of her probation, she was required to write an apology letter to her adoptive father. Soon after, he abused Taylor again—and this time, Taylor took photos and video of the incident on her phone. Taylor’s evidence led to her adoptive father ultimately getting sentenced to 17 years in prison.

https://archive.org/details/020250126

Remember folks, if police unions are against some thing, that thing is right, vital, and essential.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250131130502/https://sheriffs.substack.com/p/sheriffs-and-mass-deportation-the

Steve Gessmann, vice president of operations for Breaking News Network servicing media groups, private security firms and government agencies, says, “Secrecy from the news media threatens to damage the trust and goodwill that the NYPD is working so hard to maintain.”

https://x.com/Jaybefaunt/status/1878482335236001939

DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

Actors throughout Memphis’s criminal legal system know that MPD officers do not feel particularly constrained by what is legal. One prosecutor told the Justice Department that some MPD supervisors do not review arrests and might not even have the training to recognize whether probable cause exists. A judicial commissioner told the Justice Department that they must “often” remind officers that probable cause is needed to conduct a search or an arrest. A judge expressed frustration that MPD officers are sometimes unable to articulate probable cause in their arrest reports. The Justice Department writes that judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys all raised concerns about MPD’s “over-reliance on ‘high-crime areas’ as a justification for stops.”

TO COPS

A tragic situation went from bad to worse in Evansville, Illinois, after police who responded to complaints about animal neglect ended up shooting the dog they were summoned to help, WISH reported.

Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.

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"Payne, 36, died after he was handcuffed, shot with a stun gun and then held down with deputies’ knees on his back outside the jail, despite his pleas that he could not breathe, according to court documents."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=david+mascarella&t=h_&ia=web

David Mascarella returned to the Suffolk County Police Department in New York on Thursday following an 18-month unpaid suspension for driving drunk and crashing into a car carrying two children, one of whom was permanently injured. In August 2020, Mascarella spent his day off golfing and lunching during which he claimed he drank up to three 12-ounce vodka soda cocktails, Newsday reported after an extensive investigation.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Eric DeValkenaere will be home for Christmas. Late Friday afternoon Missouri Governor Mike Parson commuted Devalkenaere for the December 2019 killing of Cameron Lamb.

Schaetzel suggested that Floyd died of high levels of catecholamines, a neurohormone associated with the flight-or-fight response, or Takotsubo myocarditis, a heart condition caused by intense emotional or physical experiences.

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/7854492

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23008483

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

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"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term. Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.

I wanted to let you all know about a program I wrote in Python which can be used to request large information sets as individual letters. Basically you list the documents you're interested in and then you create a list of requests that apply to all of the documents. So for instance if you have 10 documents and 6 requests, when you hit the generate button 60 letters will pop up as a pdf which you can then print, sign, and send. I recommend priority mail envelopes. Repos: https://github.com/josephmbasile/FOIAs https://lemmy.world/c/foia_s https://www.reddit.com/r/FOIA_s/

Pino was fired in 2007 from the MSP crime lab after working as a chemist for more than two decades, the complaint said. He “had allowed the collection of samples not reported by law, reported incomplete results to police, and failed to report DNA database matches to prosecutors until after the statute of limitations for the crimes had elapsed,” according to the complaint.

The woman, Talisa Coombs, told Delaney she’d just gotten into what she alleged was a physical altercation with her granddaughter’s mother, Maria Pike, and called 911. Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope — who were identified Tuesday by authorities from the Police Involved Investigative Team, or PIIT, a team of eastern Jackson County detectives called in to investigate police shootings and use-of-force incidents.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22151349

Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.

Never give the cops your phone.

MCNAIRY CO., Tenn. (WMC) - A state animal cruelty investigation has resulted in the arrest of a now-former McNairy County Sheriff’s deputy, who is accused of shooting multiple dogs to death while tasked with ensuring the animals were okay.

C.H. had reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay. While he was in uniform and on duty. The first time, against his department-issued vehicle. The second, inside a police office.

Sgt. Sébastien Plouffe threw part of the 14-year-old motorcycle accident victim's skull into a ravine in 2021 after being chastised by the victim's mother for the way law enforcement handled the scene of the accident.

The original on Washington Post is paywalled. And my usual solutions of bypassing wasn't working. Sorry for the MSN wrapper.

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Day 2 of posting my fav Extra Fabulous comics so Zach doesn't have to: Good Cop Bad Cop

sheriff is the new county based daddy

Medlock also ordered Noel, 53, to pay $270,000 in fines and more than $3 million in restitution to the agencies affected by his actions, telling the former sheriff he had “tarnished the badge and failed everyone in law enforcement.”

Body camera video shows two Phoenix officers violently assaulting Tyron McAlpin, a deaf man with cerebral palsy

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14227257

The video posted by Cavender claims that deputies were dispatched to "speed" through Cobb County to respond to Sheriff Owens' issue at a nearby Burger King. The video appears to depict the deputies running red lights and using their sirens.